The Enlightenment
By: Dorinda Outram
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: New approaches to European history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Brand: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781107027398; 9781107636576
Subjects: Intellectual life; Enlightenment
Description: What is Enlightenment? - Coffee houses and consumers: the social context - Enlightenment and government - Political economy - Exploration, cross-cultural contact and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment - When people are property: the problem of slavery - Enlightenment thinking about gender - Science and the Enlightenment - The rise of modern paganism?: religion and the Enlightenment - The end of the Enlightenment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is enlightenment?; title: Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of enlightenment; title: Enlightenment and government: new departure or business as usual?; title: Political economy : the science of the state and the market; title: Exploration, cross-cultural contact, and the ambivalence of the Enlightenment; title: When people are property: the problem of slavery in the Enlightenment; title: Enlightenment thinking about gender; title: Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding; title: The rise of modern paganism? Religion and the Enlightenment; title: The end of the Enlightenment: conspiracy and revolution?